Essex Centre, Village, Ontario (1891 census)

Essex Centre, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,709. The administrative centroid was at approximately 42.170°N, 82.825°W.

Population

In 1891, Essex Centre, Village had a population of 1,709: 880 male and 829 female residents.

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

• In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Colchester N, 1881 (1.9% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Essex Centre, Village shared boundaries with:

• Colchester N

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 76 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,709 total population, 880 males, 829 females, 636 married persons, 347 families, 318 married females, 318 married males, 55 widowed persons, 35 widowed females, 20 widowed males, 4.90 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,018 single persons under 18, 542 single males under 18, 476 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,686 persons who are not French Canadian, 23 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 333 houses, 333 occupied houses, 290 houses built of wood, 240 houses of 2 stories, 192 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 93 houses of 1 story, 58 uninhabited houses, 46 houses of 5 rooms, 43 houses built of brick, 36 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 35 houses of 4 rooms, 11 houses of 3 rooms, 7 houses of over 15 rooms, 5 houses of 2 rooms, 1 houses of 1 room, 1 houses under construction. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 24,136 pounds of homemade butter, 9,278 bushels of corn, 4,429 bushels of oats, 2,265 bushels of potatoes, 1,692 chickens, 776 bushels of winter wheat, 538 acres of improved land in farms, 538 acres of land in farms, 534 swine slaughtered or sold, 529 bushels of turnips, 472 bushels of barley, 363 acres of farmland under crops, 343 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 250 horses aged over 3 years, 234 bushels of beans, 210 swine, 197 bushels of peas, 186 cattle killed or sold, 184 tons of hay, 180 milk cows, 165 sheep slaughtered or sold, 164 acres of oats, 144 acres of hay crops, 112 occupants of farms, 110 acres of farmland in pasture, 101 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 89 other cattle, 84 bushels of spring wheat, 75 sheep, 67 bushels of buckwheat, 66 farm occupants who rent their land, 65 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 57 acres of wheat, 46 farm occupants who own their land, 44 ducks, 33 horses aged 3 years and under, 32 acres of potatoes, 32 other fowl, 25 acres of barley, 24 geese, 10 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 5 acres of turnips, 3 oxen, 1 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

• TCP UID: ON063005 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON063005 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1891 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Essex Centre, Village, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/essex-centre-village-on063005-1891/.